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Society of the Spectacle (Donald Nicholson-Smith Translation)

by: Guy Debord

Topics: Marxism, Communism, Situationist, Situationism, Situationist International, International Situationniste, Anarchism, Anarchy, Anarchist, Communist, Communism, Commune, Workers' Councils, Alienation, Commodification, Reification, May '68, 1968, Resistance, Revolt, Revolution, Revolutionary, Raoul Vaneigem
Collection: folkscanomy_politics; folkscanomy
Language: English
Item Size: 110.2M

Originally published in France in 1967, Society of the Spectacle offered a set of radically new propositions about the nature of contemporary capitalism and modern culture. At the same time it was one of the most influential theoretical works for a wide range of political and revolutionary practice in the 1960s. Today, Debord's work continues to be in the forefront of debates about the fate of consumer society and the operation of modern social power. In a sweeping revision of Marxist categories, the notion of the spectacle takes the problem of the commodity from the sphere of economics to a point at which the commodity as an image dominates not only economic exchange but the primary communicative and symbolic activity of all modern societies.

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